FANTASTIC FOUR: Actor Toby Kebbell Says Victor von Doom "is Who We Hoped He Will be"



There's been a lot of mystery surrounding Victor von Doom in the FANTASTIC FOUR reboot. So much so there was a previous rumor claiming he was a hacker by the online screen name of Doom.

Thankfully this has been debunked by actor Toby Kebbell, who plays Victor von Doom, and he also went into some details about his character's past (via SHH).

"There’s no conversation about [Doom’s origins] in the film. We don’t have time to talk about me- I would love it, but we don’t have real time. Yeah, he’s still from the same place, his mother is still a gypsy and done her deals, his father still perished from exposure looking after me. He’s angry. He’s an angry dude. But now he’s in Baxter. He’s bright and he’s trying to make people proud. He found a new father in Dr. Storm, the father of Johnny and adoptive father of Sue. I kind of get adopted as well, in a fantastic performance by Reg E. Cathey. And that’s Doom as we see him. He’s a computer technician, a computer scientist. There were rumors he was a hacker or something, but no. Victor Von Doom is who we hope he will be."

It's interesting to hear Sue and Johnny's father is also a father figure for Victor. This is different than his original comic book origin but the reboot has deviated from the comic origins of Marvel's first family a lot.

At least he's not the computer hacker called Doom because that would have been a terrible decision for one of Marvel's greatest villains.